The VISITOR'S CORNER with Malinda Maynor Lowery

Abstract

Malinda Maynor Lowery is a film producer, scholar, and member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She works across a range of media to, in her words, “make meaning of what might otherwise get lost.” Moving fluidly between visual and written storytelling, she brings this meaning to multiple audiences. As a film producer, she has garnered both a James Beard and a Peabody Award for the show, A Chef’s Life, and an Emmy nomination for the documentary Private Violence. As an historian, she has won numerous prizes for her books, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of the Nation (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) and The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). In September 2021, Adriane Lentz-Smith sat down with Lowery for a conversation about craft, community, what it means to name one’s place, and what it means to claim one’s people.